Microbiology test reliability in differentiation of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria polysaccharea

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA Eszter.Deak@hhs.sccgov.org.
² Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Public Health Laboratory, Downey, California, USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Comment

E Deak et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Sep.

. 2014 Sep;52(9):3496.

doi: 10.1128/JCM.01703-14. Epub 2014 Jun 25.

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA Eszter.Deak@hhs.sccgov.org.
² Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Public Health Laboratory, Downey, California, USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Misidentification of Neisseria polysaccharea as Neisseria meningitidis with the use of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry.
Cunningham SA, Mainella JM, Patel R. Cunningham SA, et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Jun;52(6):2270-1. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00664-14. Epub 2014 Apr 2. J Clin Microbiol. 2014. PMID: 24696027 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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